Comparison

NextNote vs TooTask·Checklist&Task Manager

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

NextNote

Features
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Capture the thought now. Keep shaping it later. NextNote brings quick capture, rich-text editing, voice input, organization, and AI writing tools into one continuous note-taking workflow. Use it for passing ideas, meeting notes, study material, checklists, journals, project plans, or long-form drafts that need room to grow. CAPTURE FROM HOME Open NextNote and start typing without choosing a complicated format first. When typing is not convenient, capture the moment with voice, photos, or video. A quick capture is not a disconnected message or disposable draft. Once saved, it becomes a document you can keep editing, search later, organize, reuse, and share. Move from one sentence to a complete piece of writing without starting over in another tool. NextNote works well for: • Quick notes, memos, and everyday ideas • Meeting notes and work documentation • Class notes, research material, and study guides • Journals, reading notes, and writing drafts • To-do lists, checklists, and project planning • Voice thoughts, photo references, and video clips A FLEXIBLE EDITOR FOR REAL WRITING Create a simple note or develop a longer document in the same editor. Structure your work with headings, paragraphs, rich-text formatting, numbered and bulleted lists, checklists, quotes, and links. Add images, audio, video, drawings, and other content blocks when words alone are not enough. Start rough and refine over time. Save useful structures as templates for recurring meeting notes, weekly plans, study reviews, journals, or content production. Your capture and writing tools stay together, so organizing an idea does not require moving it across several apps. VOICE AND MULTIMEDIA NOTES Use voice when you need to record an idea faster than you can type, then continue working with the text. Keep images, recordings, videos, and drawings beside the written context in one document. This makes it easier to preserve source material, visual references, and the process behind your work. You can also send text, links, images, or files to NextNote from the system share sheet, then place the imported material in a new or existing document. AI WRITING HELP, ONE SWIPE AWAY AI tools live inside the writing flow instead of in a separate chat. Select text and swipe left to use focused actions in the current document: • Polish wording and improve clarity • Expand a short thought into a fuller passage • Highlight keywords and important points • Find and add a relevant visual Each action starts from text you deliberately select, so you can keep your intent and decide what to change. There is no need to copy a passage into another app or interrupt your writing session. SEARCH, ARCHIVE, AND REUSE Search document titles and body text to find an earlier note quickly. Move work you do not need right now into archive folders to keep Home focused. Deleted documents go to Trash first and can be recovered during the retention period. Turn structures you use repeatedly into templates. As your collection grows, search, folders, archives, Trash, and templates give you practical ways to manage personal notes, work records, study material, and creative projects. LOCAL NOTES AND ICLOUD Keep using local notes and core editing tools while offline. Online services are used only when a related feature needs them. On supported Apple devices, you can use iCloud according to your settings to store and sync content, then continue writing across iPhone, iPad, and compatible devices. SHARE, EXPORT, AND PUBLISH When your work is ready to leave the notebook, share it from the document. Send material to other apps, or deliberately publish a document as a web page. You can also prepare adapted versions for different content platforms when that fits your workflow. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

TooTask·Checklist&Task Manager

This app helps you focus on your most important tasks by organizing them into timed and untimed lists. It offers widgets for your home and lock screens, and reusable checklists for recurring work. Build daily routines and track progress without pressure.

Highlights
  • Two-track task organization (timed and untimed)
  • Live Activities and widgets for lock/home screens
  • Reusable checklists for routines
  • Daily routine planning
  • Progress tracking and streaks
  • No sign-up required
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Tootask keeps one question answered all day: what am I supposed to be doing right now? TWO TRACKS, NO PILE-UP Timed tasks arrive on their own. When the clock hits, the task takes over your Lock Screen and your notifications — done, snooze or skip right there, and the next one steps up on its own. Everything without a time goes to the backlog and waits. Nothing nags you until you claim it. ON THE LOCK SCREEN AND THE HOME SCREEN A Live Activity carries the current task with its countdown. Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets show today's progress, what's next and your streak. You can also pin any task to the Lock Screen by hand, and style the card — background, blur, transparency, text colour. ROUTINES THAT REBUILD THEMSELVES Build a routine once — morning, shift start, closing up — and it lays out every day it should run. Three importance levels, time and importance sorting, five built-in templates to start from. CHECKLISTS THAT LEAVE A RECORD Run the same checklist several times a day. Every round stamps every item with its own time, and the record cannot be edited after the fact. Export a round to CSV when someone needs proof. CALENDAR AND REMINDERS, BOTH WAYS Send timed tasks and routines to the Calendar app, or pull your events into Today. Sync with Apple Reminders in both directions, completion included — tick it off in Reminders and it is done in Tootask too. Tootask only ever writes to a calendar and list of its own; your existing events are never touched. Both are off until you turn them on. STREAKS WITHOUT GUILT Finish one task and the day counts. A day with nothing scheduled is a rest day: it neither breaks the streak nor pads it. No penalties, no red marks, nothing to lose by taking a day off. YOUR MAC, TOO Tootask for Mac is included in the same purchase. A menu-bar bubble handles the current task without leaving the app you're in, a pinned floating window keeps it on top of everything, and the Dock badge counts what's due. iCloud keeps both ends on one list. ALSO IN THE BOX • iPad, in all four orientations • Nearby share — hand a plan or checklist to someone next to you, no account, no server • Daily review with a history calendar • Dark mode, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver • 11 languages • No account. No sign-up. Your tasks stay on your devices and in your own iCloud. FREE AND PRO Free covers the whole loop: 1 routine, 1 checklist template, unlimited one-off tasks, the Lock Screen, widgets, streaks, review and sync. Pro adds unlimited routines and steps, unlimited checklist templates, persistent reminders, CSV export, every widget and card style, and the Mac menu bar bubble and floating window. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Tootask Pro is available as a weekly, monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, or as a one-time purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the period. Manage or cancel in Settings › your name › Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://www.aivoxx.com/todo/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.aivoxx.com/todo/terms.html

Screenshots

NextNote4 screens
TooTask·Checklist&Task Manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: TooTask·Checklist&Task Manager at Free against NextNote's $5.99. NextNote's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

TooTask·Checklist&Task Manager is free to download; NextNote costs $5.99 up front. TooTask·Checklist&Task Manager sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. NextNote asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NextNote ships an update every 5 days, TooTask·Checklist&Task Manager every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
NextNote versus TooTask·Checklist&Task Manager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNextNoteTooTask·Checklist&Task Manager
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—88.9% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer劲灿 陈晶 黄

In-app purchases

None

NextNote

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

TooTask·Checklist&Task Manager

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Pro$4.997 Days
  • Monthly Pro$9.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro3 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$39.99

Questions

Is NextNote free?
NextNote costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is TooTask·Checklist&Task Manager free?
TooTask·Checklist&Task Manager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do NextNote or TooTask·Checklist&Task Manager have ads?
Neither NextNote nor TooTask·Checklist&Task Manager shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NextNote or TooTask·Checklist&Task Manager?
NextNote ships an update every 5 days, and TooTask·Checklist&Task Manager every 8 days. Most recently, NextNote was updated on October 24, 2026 and TooTask·Checklist&Task Manager on October 29, 2026.

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